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'No drama' if EU budget deal agreed only next year, says Germany

Germany wants a deal at the EU budget summit, but it could happen that this meeting is just a "first step" towards a final deal early next year, which would still be "within the normal time frame," said a German official. "It would be no drama," he said.

Opinion

Two years on from the highly-controversial EU-Turkey deal, many thousands of refugees are still trapped on Greek islands. One of them offers an open invitation to EU leaders to see their inhospitable conditions at the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos.

Interview

The controversy over the new EU Commission top civil servant is revealing of what is wrong with EU institutions and how they are blocked by national governments, says award-winning Austrian novelist Robert Menasse.